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Every year, we hear about just how much harder it is for artists to get their start in the music industry, with plenty of digital tools making it easy (in theory) to get their music "out there", but…

Next week, Jake Stone (Bluejuice) will host the first of three free seminars at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. As the producer, booker and host of the three-event series, Jake Stone has tapped…

“I know that I went through a stage of actual despair, if I’m being honest with you,” says Jen Cloher. The Melbourne-based musician is sitting in her car, having just dropped off her partner Courtney…

Genre bias, changing the Hottest 100 date and content quotas were just some of the pressing issues Chris Scaddan, triple j’s head of music, tackled on stage during a bruising final day session at the…

On May 15, a long-awaited change debuted on the ARIA Albums chart, with qualifying on-demand streams contributing to the Album charts result. Already the case on the Singles chart, the change was…

TMN will be bringing you the highlights of Contemporary Music Roundtable’s inspiring and informative panels, workshops and talks in Sydney on Wednesday and Thursday this week. One of the sessions…

With her band Killing Heidi becoming one of the biggest things in Australian music when she was still in high school, APRA mentor Ella Hooper has spent her entire adult life as a working musician,…

To say Ashley Page is on a roll is an understatement. The British-born, Auckland-based industry figure has been in a purple patch since he was working with artists such as Garbage at Mushroom /…

It’s all about the indies this week in Adelaide. The independent music community is gathering this week in the South Australian capital for the 11th national AIR Awards and the inaugural Indie-Con…

Sure, BIGSOUND might be one of the highlights of the music industry calendar, but for the unprepared it can also be a non-stop barrage of showcases, meet-ups and run-ins that quite quickly…